Girls' Clubs Planned

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 201, 26 August 1939, Page 4

Girls' Clubs Planned

For Women

LOVDON". BED, breakfast, bath and an ample evening meal throughout th'- week, with full board on Saturdays and Sundays that is the ambitious scheme for working girls which Mrs. Cecil Chesterton visualises in the first of the Cecil Residential Clubs opened recently in Cower Street. Mrs. Chesterton has had so much experience in work of this kind that no one doubts the success of this new venture. II"' ' I'll' 11 ;l J been 111.1 11111 | 1.1 •"■'•'"l I-Hii 7- -::-N ~t' ill,. 11111 j. >|- '.M'i' 1 "ill'*;" • I • I . III! 11l I' , | 1 ■ > lII' .11 I• 1 1<I• ■ n .iml ivlin. in tin- |ii„[ iii.r.■ n , li-i ' >> to -1111-1 -' un a \ i'r v 111■ >il<--1 salary. Ih" n rr.i liim-n tn. arc of the mil-* modern type with four beds In >l room and curt ,i ins rniiinl each f,, r privacy. Bathrooms, including showers,

Hi i!i'- i-'Trirlors and there is a spa. imi. -.itiu-ri room in which provision in in.i.l" fur table tennis, darts and other indoor spurts. Members will be at libi-rty t.» a-k their boy friends to the i-lii'i every Saturday night for dancing nndi-r tli.. -11[ -i-r% isi<m <> f the principal, and tlicit- is a well-equipped library fur which the ni'idc.t charge of one penny a uck " 11 In- made. A small study is prii\ided fur those who may have homework after attending evening classes and, if a general wi-h is expressed, a it,i n L'cinent - u ill lie made for instruction ;11 d''os-inaking or any other home craft. It i. a notable experiment and will In- Matched with interest by all social workers. Cocktail Party When l.onl ainT l.adv TTullenden entertained lie.t. to a cocktail party iti their limiM- in ( onnauuht Vlace, talk naturally turned on the exhibition of Kuval a ml hi-turii- treasures which Princess Alice Countess of Athlnne opened at 14. >, Piccadilly, Lord Hollen-

And Other Jottings 9 By A Maid In Mayfair den being chairman of the movement. Princess Alice was unable to be present, as she was deputising for Queen Mary at another function. It was the Princess who suggested the exhibition while staying with the King and Queen at Windsor at Ka-ter, and at once she secured their promise to lend as many of their own treasures as possible. There are to be twenty different sections in the various roinns of the King's old home, all of absorbing interest. Royal Loans Queen Mary has lent a large number of things which she chose personally

from her own treasures. Even after her accident she asked a lady-in-waiting to telephone to Clock House saying that she had thought of two more. Piincess Beatrice has lent the bracelet made of miniatures of Queen Victoria's first eight children. Etchings done by the Queen and the Prince Consort and given to Captain Francis Seymour in 1840, are being lent by Sir Albert Seymour. Lord Sackville's treasures on loan are the original chairs of the time of James I. and Charles 11., copies of which were used at the Coronation of King George A", and Queen Marv and of King George VI. and Queen Elizabeth. The Duke of Gloucester is lending the musical toy doll which Queen Victoria '.rave him, and tliiri is to be in the room where toys belonging to Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, Prince Edward and Princess .Alexandra are on view. Lady Cynthia Asquith has lent Sir James Barrie's M.S. of "Peter Pan."' and Mr. S. P. R. Mais' contribution is a jrroup of Emily Bronte relics, including the knitting she was holding at the time of her death. True Story From the commandant of the community I heard the story of the Heritage Craft Schools at Chailey, which have always had the interest and support of the Queen, Queen Mary and

members of the Royal Family, all of whom have visited them. From a small beginning 38 years ago in two cottage*, ■when five girls and seven boys, all cripples, were given a chance to make good, the work has grown until now there are 400 children learning woodwork, • bootmaking, carpentry, housekeeping, nursing, needlework—almost every imaginable craft. After the cottage beginning, an old reformatory was bought and transformed, and then 26 children were accommodated. The late Lord Llangattock purchased a site from Lord Sheffield and built thereon the present Girls' Heritage School. St. George's, the residential home for boys, was contributed by public schools of the country, and opened by the Duke of Windsor when he was Prince of Wales. The schools are to be extended, and the exhibition at the King's old home in Piccadilly is to aid the building fund. The Queen has expressed a wish to open the new building when it is ready. Divinely Tall The entrapment of Lady Anne Hope, the eldest daughter of Lord Linlithgow, the Viceroy of India, to Lieutenant Southbv, a former A.D.C. to the Viceroy, k *a reminder of what romantic places Vice-Regal House in Delhi and Vice-Regal Lodge in Simla have been. 'Hie engagements of members of the vicc-regal family are not numerous. The last, I think, was that of Lord Willingdon'e heir, Lord Ratenrfone; hut those of members of the entourage and of the vice-regal visiting list would fill a volume. Lady Anne and her two youngest sisters have been prominent figures in Delhi-Simla society. They have twin brothers, and the average height of the seven members of the family must be little, if at all, short of six feet, which is thought to be a record. Both Lord and Lady Linlithgow are extremely tall. She is a daughter of the late Sir Frederick Milner, who # was a tall and handsome figure.